Republican Steele's Afghanistan Remarks Praised by Ron Paul  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, whose remarks suggesting the U.S. will lose the war in Afghanistan have prompted some Republicans to demand his resignation, won praise from Representative Ron Paul.

Declaration of Independence: A Fisking  —  This post was originally published July 4, 2006.  —  Today marks the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Jim Lynch sent out an email to several of us asking us to blog the event as if we were there.

Big Peace  —  A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney's “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching Big Peace.

Oil Companies Reap Billions From Subsidies  —  When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands.  Registering there allowed the rig's owner to significantly reduce its American taxes.

Dems' message: All about the gaffes  —  The dust-up this week between President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), ostensibly about Wall Street regulation, revealed more about the two parties' midterm campaign strategies than anything else.

By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds: SCOTUS ruling shows how far gun rights have come  —  Topping last week's legal stories was the Supreme Court's decision in McDonald v. Chicago, holding that the Second Amendment — which the Supreme Court just two years ago interpreted to protect an individual right to own a gun …

Iran unveils human-like robot: report  —  Iran has developed a new human-like walking robot to be used in “sensitive jobs,” government newspaper Iran reported on Sunday.  —  Soorena-2, named after an ancient Persian warrior, was unveiled by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday.

The Trouble With Deflation  —  Daniel Gross says maybe a little deflation wouldn't be so bad: … I have two objections to this.  One is that while three percent growth would be a fine amount of growth for a developed economy under most conditions, a developed economy pulling out of a recession …

They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)  —  THE advertisement warns of speculative financial bubbles.  It mocks a group of gullible Frenchmen seduced into a silly, 18th-century investment scheme, noting that the modern shareholder, armed with superior information, can avoid the pitfalls of the past.

Nudge on Arms Further Divides the U.S. and Israel  —  WASHINGTON — It was only one paragraph buried deep in the most plain-vanilla kind of diplomatic document, 40 pages of dry language committing 189 nations to a world free of nuclear weapons.  But it has become the latest source …

Patriotic opposition  —  How are those of us who stand in opposition to the domestic agenda and for eign-policy views of President Obama and his administration to think about this country in 2010 as we approach the nation's birthday on Sunday?  —  Or, to put it another way …